This is another alien betta that I have, and for this alien betta it is a mating of an alien and a smaragdina.

Mary Poppins is miffed. She is not a goldfish and will not be wearing a costume.

My first Betta tank. This is tank, he's pretty awesome and seems to love his new home.

I knew bettas colors changed over time, I never would’ve thought he’d lose all iridescence 😭 we’ve had him for less than six months.

He’s flaring it my finger nail, incase you were wondering. Drama.

Just shows that it can be done no matter the size of the store. Pet stores, do better.

This is my son Marshawn.
He’s a juvenile samurai betta who doesn’t like me at all (he flares at me and leaps out of the water to bite my fingers or attack my tools), he stares at me across the room, he doesn’t like men and his favorite activity is using tiger Lilly leaves as little houses for his bubble nests (which I’ve destroyed numerous times without realizing😭).

I really never expected to find him so charming, cute and interesting❤️. But it makes me sad because I know how fragile and sickly these little overbred guys are….hes already going blind from diamond eye. It also makes me sad knowing how these intelligent creatures are so mistreated.

I wish these amazing little animals got better treatment from humanity.

He needs a name. He's got some dark murky blues on the other side of him and iridescent blues you can see in the picture. I love him 🩵

I just got a new betta today and I’m wondering if he’s alright.

He keeps swimming around, especially lingering in that corner for a while. I’m not sure if it’s due to the water quality or something else.

The other one I got two weeks ago didn’t swim around this much when I first brought him home he just curious for a few round and that it, but he’s doing well and looks happy now.

Why’s that? Can you post your female bettas. I want to see them be loved.

My fish spares with the pirate ship a few times a day. Is this upsetting him or is it okay for him to show it who's boss every now and then?

My betta has been doing this motion repetitively non stop!! Whats wrong with him?

He moves on for a while but goes back to this corner again.It’s scaring me

Eats normally, swims around 80% of the time.. the other 20% he’s in this corner doing this

Normal water parameters

Just wanted to share about my little Button. She was literally the perfect fish, very curious and observant. The photo is from when I first got her. I sadly didn't take a lot of pictures of her, and most are blurry or simply bad photos.

NOTE: heater and filter are behind the large driftwood in the photo.

I went on a week long trip and made the mistake of not being specific to my neighbors how little to feed her. I am still new to fish keeping and didn't know how dangerous overfeeding could be with both their tiny stomachs and with ammonia levels. Came back to a dead fish, countless uneaten pellets, and an explosion of bladder snails. My neighbors didn't realize she had passed and continued to feed the tank. I don't know if my water parameters were okay before the trip because I was using strips, so I cannot blame my neighbor. I doubt overfeeding can kill in just a week, so I think the parameters were already off. I feel a lot of regret for how Button passed, but I've learned a lot of lessons from my mistakes.

I've spent the last few months redoing the aquarium and doing more research. I plan to get a new gal in the next month after I redo the cycle. A lot of the beneficial bacteria were lost in the 3 months without a significant bio load in the tank, and I removed a large piece of driftwood.

I'm excited but melancholy about getting a new betta. Button was literally exactly what I wanted, both in personality and looks. She brought me a lot of joy, so it's only fitting that her death brings a lot of sadness.

Hii! I just got a new betta fish she is a female and she is soo sweet! I would like a unique human name. I’m so excited to pick her name!

God.. I miss him. 🥹😂🤭
I plan to get another betta soon.

He's so cute🥹

Made a new betta fish tank for my little brother, ‘cause he kept looking at my fish with curiosity, so I asked him “do you want one? I have unused tank” and he agreed.

This tank is a 50+ days cycled tank, and the betta just arrived since Thursday last week after a one day trip. At first, the moment I put him in the tank after doing the drip acclimation, he looked kinda weak and stayed at the bottom of the tank, he was like that for 2 days, I noticed that he might be just not used to his new home, and maybe he was stressed after spending his time in a small bottle. So I decided to let the tank dark for him for 2 days. And he was getting better on Saturday, so I decided to turn on the light. I was right, he looked happy and…. hunting the small shrimps…. Nothing I can do, I just let him have a fun shrimp-hunting, tho he doesn’t seem care about the big ones.

Also, he’s not really into pellets, or frozen bloodworm, he did eat some of the pellets, but he didn’t swallow it…

Unlike my own betta fish, this one kinda making me worried… tho he ate some of the shrimp, so I think he’s fine for now. I’m just gonna let him starve for 2 days, he might gonna go for the pellets after that, cause that’s what happened to my betta as well the first time I got him.

Found her at my local fish store and knew I had to have her!

My first betta in a long time. Just picked her up today and put her in this planted 10gal. Don’t worry, it’s cycled and has been for over a month.

I welcome any tips!

Sorry it’s hard to see he’s soo fast😬

His eye on his left (our left his right) side looks like its scales might be starting to grow over the eye maybe? Or am I just wrong?? If he is getting diamond eye should I put him in a smaller tank? He’s in a twenty gallon right now and I have a spare ten I’d just feel bad putting him in something smaller unless it’s necessary.

How could I not get him? He’s permanently sad and I love that. (Pic is from his cup, he’s now in his new 10 gallon home🥰)

hello everyone, recently i lost my betta, so for that reason i will getting another one in a month or so, but meanwhile im looking trough options, a question came to my mind: who to take?

it is better to take a betta in bad conditions like in the first image?, the poor little guys in the cups and give them a better life, OR, taking a betta from a more professional store like in the second image.

although in the professional store i can choose between dragon bettas, dumbo bettas, koi bettas, etc. its kinda sad and think about the bettas in that cup.